I have created a r/Bitcoin Team for folding Proteins to help with the fight against COVID19: 238758

This video will help provide some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4qOebhkfs

And here is an article from Folding@Home for more details: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

I've created a r/Bitcoin Team for COVID19 protein folding, our team number is 238758. add this into the GUI by clicking "change ID" when you start mining/folding.

I have been mining proteins now for the past week, its fairly easy to setup, but you do have to allow for express install on windows. custom installing is too much of a headache. once it's installed, it opens up a Firefox (Brave browser doesn't work, go figure) GUI where you can set how much CPU/GPU power you want to have dedicated to helping solve/folding proteins. You can use your CPU or GPU, and you can adjust the settings to have the program only work when you are idle or not doing anything.

The COVID19 project is under the "All" category within the GUI.

If you have any spare computing power please try this altruistic distributed computing experiment. Folding some proteins in virtual for the benefit of a COVID19 vaccine is very much in the spirit of early Bitcoin mining. And I feel it would make Satoshi proud to know that the little community he seeded grew into something that would be brave enough to take on the monsters of this world, in more ways than one.

Thank you for reading and participating. Stay safe out there.

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